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ED 230 953 CS 207 615 AUTHOR Haviland, Virginia, Comp. TITLE Children's Books, 1980: A List of Books for Preschool through Junior High School Age. INSTITUTION Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. pn DATE 81 NOTE 17p. -AVAILABL4FROMSuperintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. PUB TYPE Reference Materials - Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adolescent Literature; Annotate Bibliographies; Art; Biographies; *Books; *Child ens Literature; Elementary Secondary Education; iction; Folk Culture; History; Hobbies; Poetry; *Reading Aloud ,to Others; *Reading Instruction; Reading Materials; *Recreational Reading; Sciences ABSTRACT The annotated materials contained in this list of children's books for'1980 have been selected for literary merit, usefulness, and enioyment, and are intended to reflecta year's publis ing in a balance between books to be enjoyed for free reading, those or reading aloud, and those recognized as valuable lor indivi ualized_reading programs or as background andsupplements to the sc ool curriculum. The 159 titles for preschool through junior high s hool age chidren are(divided into the followingareas: (1) pictur and picture story books; (2) first reading; (3) stortses for the mi dle group; (4) fiction for older readers; (5) poetry, rhyMes, and so gs; (6) folklore; (7).history, people, and places; (8) biogra hy; (9) arts and hobbies; and (10) nature and science. Approp iate grade levels for each title are included in the annota ion. (HTH)

******************************************************************.***** * Reproductions sumlied by EDRS-are the best thatcan be made * * Arm the original document. * *********************************************************************** ISSN 0069-3464 Children's Books U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESINFORMATION CENTER IERICt Tho document has bcon reproduced aa received from tho porton or zation ogInatIng Minor change's have been made to Improve 1980 rePrOduchon cjadlay. . Pointe of view or eptntons Mated In thm docu mont do not nocesearav "comment offictal NIE daemon or potrcv A List of Books for Preschool Through JuniorHigil School Age

Compiled by Virginia Haviland, Chief of the Children's Literature Center, Library of Congress, with the assistance of the following committee:

Arlington County, VirginiaDeborah Weilerstein, Coordinator of Children's Services, and Elizabeth Goebel, Head, Central Children's Rpom, Department of Libraries.

Distriet of ColumbiaElizabeth B. Murphy, Coordinator, Children's Service, Public Library, and Sarah E. Gagne, Science Teacher, Public Schools.

Library of CongressMargaret N. Coughlan, Reference Specialist in Chil- dren's Literature, Children's Literature Center.

Montgomery County, MarylandAnn Friedman and L4iune Mielke, Assistant Coordinators, Children's Services, Department of Piblic Libraries.

Prince George's County, MarylandKatherine Ann Cima, Library Media Gen- eralist, Thomas Johnson Middle School, and Mary Elizabeth Wildberger, Li- brary Media Generalist, Phyllis E. Williams School.

Note: International Standard Book Number is given after price, Library of Congress card number follows bibliographic information, and grade level appears at end of annotation.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON 1981

4 PICTURE AND PICTURE-STORy BOOKS 0-03-056289-9) which centers on a poor boy who, with 4 magic brush, came to be able to paint ina most extraordinary way. (Gr 1-3) Burningham, John. The Shopping Basket. New York, Crowell.[32] p.$9.79. ISBN 0-690- 04083-0 80-7987 De Paola, Thomas A. The Knight and the Dragon. Pictures in lively color convey the drama of New York, Putnam. 1321 p. $8.95. ISBN Steven's strange encounters on the way home 0-399-20707-4(paper$3.95ISBN0-399- from the grocery store. (PreS-Gr 1) 20708-2) 79-18131 The combat between a knight who hasnever fought a dragon and an equally inexperienced Carrick, Carol. The Climb. Pictures by Donald Car- dragon is brought, by an enterprising damsel, toa rick. New York, Houghton Mifflin/Clarion surprising conclusion. Lively, humorous, colored Books. [32) p. $8.95 ISBN 0-395-29431-2 drawings by the author. (PreS-K) 80-12965 A tense mountain-climbing adventure shared by Nora and younger Brendan is evocatively DeRegniers,Beatricc. S.EveryoneIsGood painted in woodsy tones. (K-Gr 3) for Something. New York, Houghton Mifflin/ .Clarion Books. 132) p. $8.95 ISBN 0-8 164- 3237-6 Clifton, Lucille. My Free 4d Jacob. New York, 79-12223 Dutton. [32] p. $7.95 ISBN 0-525-35487-5 Margot Tomes's pictures in muted browns, 79- 19 168 blue, and green enliven an amusing turn-about Thomas di Grazia's soft charcoal drawings and tale of a lad who believes he is good for nothing the poet's simple text tell of a black child's friend- until he rescues a cat and makes a fortune. (K-Gr ship with a retarded white boy. (K-Gr 3) 2)

Cohen, Miriam. No Good in Art. Pictures by Lillian Ginsburg, Mirra. Good Morning, Chick. Adapted Hoban. New York, Greenwillow Books. [321p. from a story by Korney Chukovsky; pictures by $7.95 ISBN 0-688-80234-6 (lib. ed. $7.63 ISBN Byron Barton. New York, Greenwillow Books. 0-688-84234-8) 791.16566 132) p. $7.95 ISBN 0-688-80284-2 (lib. ed. Clear color pictures reveal how an understand- $7.63 ISBN 0-688-84284-4) 80-11352 ing art teacher shows diffident Jim that hetoo can Bright and clear pictures, with the briefest of draw. (K-Gr 2) texts, make up this fable about a newly hatched chick that learns it has to grow before it can crow. (PreS-Gr 2) Crews, Donald. Truck. New York, Greenwillow Books. [321 p. $6.95 ISBN 0-688-80244-3 (lib. ed. $6.67- ISBN 0-688-84244-5) 79-19031 Goodall, John S. Paddy's New Hat. New York, Ath- Irstunning graphics, the artist followsone eneum. (301 (A Margaret K. McElderry book) bright red trailer truck's journeyacross country $6.95 ISBN 0-689-50172-2 through day and night and foggy and rainy Colorful, detailed illustrations serve to narrate weather. Huge block letters for tbe wordson car- Padd9 Pork's misadventures after he unwillingly riers and road signs make easy reading. (K-Gr 2) becomes part of the police force. (K-Gr 2)

Demi. Where Is h? Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday. Hill, Eric. Where's spot? New York, Putnam. 122) 48 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-385-14846-1 (lib. ed. $8.90 p. $6.95 ISBN 0-399-20758-9 80-8107 ISBN 0-385-14847-X) 78-22634 For youngest yiewers and first readers, too, a For a wide range of readers, inviting full-color captivating lift-up-the-flap toy book which shows a picture puzzles provide intricately detailed objects mother dog looking in eight different places for and designs which cathouflage an object or crea- her missing puppy. (PkeS-Gr 1) ture. Answers are shown at the end of the kvok for those who arestumped. (PreS-up) Another of this artist's distinctive picturebooks Isadora, Rachel. My Ballet Class. New York, is Liang and the Magic Paintbrush (New York, Holt, Greenwillow Books. 132) p. $6.95 ISBN Rinehart and Winston.,[32) p. $9.95 ISBN 0-688-80253-2(lit, ed. $6.67 ISBN 0-688- Library of Congress 3 84253-4) 79-16297 willow Books.[24]p.$7.95 ISBN 0-688- A clear, simple text and delicate, uncluttgred 80236-2 (lib..ed. $7.63 ISBN 0-688- , pen-and-ink drawings describe a young girl's bal- 84236-4) 79-15929 let class. (PreS-Gr 3) Clear, colored representations of a child's familiar kitchen and its equipment include a cat looking on as the little boy enjoys a hot lunch. (PreS- Jensen, Virginia A.,andPolly Edman.Red Thread Gr 1) Riddles.New York, Philomel Books,. [24] p. $10.95 ISBN 0-529-05604-6 79-28168 Published earlier by UNESCO, this slender Steig, William.Gorky Rises.'NeVork, Farrar, volume has a rhymed text in both print and Straus, Giroux. [32] p. $10.9 SBN 0-374- braille with a textured thread running through it 32752-1 80-68068 for blind and partially sighted children to finger, Effectively projected in line-and-wash art and and sighted ones to enjoy as a game. (Gr 2-up) well-chosen words are the elevatory exploits of a clever young frog with a magic potion. (K-Gr 3)

Kellogg, Steven.Pinkerton, Behave!New York, Dial Press. [32] p. $7.95 ISBN 0-8037-6573-8 Stevenson, James.That Terrible Halloween Night. (lib. ed. $7.45 ISBN 0-8037-6575-4) 78-31794 New York, Greenwillow Books. [32] p. $7.95 This late 1979 picture storybook portrays in jol- ISBN 0-688-80281-8 (lib. ed. $7.63 ISBN ly manner a large, amiable dog's inept attempts to 0-688-84281-X) 79-27775 put into practice his lessons at obedience school. A suitably scary tall wie which Grandpa tells (K-Gr 1) Louie and Mary Ann about the dreadful Hal- loween night when he entered a mysterious houw and turned intel an old man. (PreS-Gr 2) Marshall, Edward.Space Case.Pictures by James Mso,Howard(ISBN 0-688-80255-9; lib. ed. Marshall. New York, Dial Press. [40] p. $5.95 ISBN 0-688-84255-0), with delicately washed, ISBN 0-8037-8005-2 (lib. ed. $7.45 ISBN highly evocative ink-line pictures which follow a 0-8037-8007-9) 80-13369 dawdling duc-k as he misses the flock on its way In a brightly illustrated bit of science fantasy, an south and spends the winter in New York City. antennaed yellow "thing" from outer space drifts (K-Gr 2) down to earth on Halloween to have a look around. (K-Gr 1) The Three Little figs.With illustrations by Erik Blegvad. New York, Atheneum. 31 p. (A Provensen, Alice, and Martin Provensen. AHorse Margaret K. McElderry bOok) $7.95 ISBN and aHound, a Goat and a Gander.New York, 0-689-50139-0 80-10410 Atheneum. 32 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-689- An inviting small volume, for a wide audi- 30793-7 80-13259 ence, has explicitly detailed but uncluttered il- An oversize, attractively colored picture book in lustrations in muted colors enhancing the verac- which the animals of Maple Hill Farm appear and ity of a domestic setting. (PreS-Gr 3) are introduced as useful contributors to agrarian life. (PreS-Gr 1) Watanabe, Shigeo. Whata Good Lunch!New York, Collins. 28 p. (An I can do it by myself Rice,Eve. Goodnight, Goodnight. NewYork, book, 2: eating) $6.95 ISBN 0-529-05579-1' Greenwillow Books. [32] p. $6.95 ISBN (lib. ed. $6.91 ISBN 0-529-05580-5) 79-19535 0-688-80254-0(lib., ed.$6.67 ISBN 0-688- Bear is beguilingly pictured making each of 84254-2) 79-17253 his self-directed remarks (set in bold print) on A comfortable lapbOok for bedtime shows a yel- managing lunchespecially such awkward ele- low moon and yellow houselighis penetrating the ments as jam and spaghetti. Yasuo Ohtomo's black of night while people all over town wish art, in soft colors, heightens the visual charm. each other goodnight and a little cat purrs to his (PreS-K) mother. Bold lettering for a simple text make this a first reader as well as a picturebook. (PreS-Gr 1) Winter, Paula. Sir Andrew. New York, Ciown Publishers. [32] p. $7.95 ISBN 0-517-53911-X Rockwell, Harlow.My Kitchen.New York, Green- 80-14069 Children's Books 1980 3 4 A wordless picture book alive with charm and Ross, Pat.M and M and the Haunted House Game. humor follows a hatted and very vain donkey Pictures byMary lin Hafner. New York, Pan- (he uses a hair dryer) on äne very gusty day. theon Books. 43 p. (An I am reading book) (K-Gr 2) $4.95 ISBN 0-394-84185-9 (lib. ed. $4.99 ISBN 0-394-94185-3) 79-27678 An easily read mystery takes an unexpected turn when M and M are shaken beyond their imagining while playing their favorite game. FIRST READING ((;r 2-4)

Bonsai!, Crosby N.The Case of the Double Cross.Sharmat, Mitchell.Gregory, the Terrible Eater. NewYork, Harper & Row. 64 p. (An Ican Illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey: read book) $6.95 ISBN 0-06-02060-2-0 (lib. New York, Four Winds Press. 32 p. $7.95 ed. $7.89 ISBN 0-06-020603-9) 80-7768, ISBN 0-590-07586-1 79-19172 ° In an inviting book young Marigold, devisesa A cheerfullysilly,brightlyillustratedtale means of penetrating the boys' private eye club. about a goat who prefers "fruits, vegetables... (PreS-Gr 1) and good stuff like that" to "shoes, boxes, mag- azines" and the like, and whose parents com- promise with him after a binge at the town Gackenbach, Dick.Hattie, Tom, and the Chicken dump. (PreS-Gr 2) Witch; a Play and a Story.New York, Harper & Row. 63 p. (An I can read book) $5.95 ISBN 0-06-021958-0(lib.ed.$6.89 ISBN 0-06- Ten Copycats in a Boat, and Other Riddles.[Edited] 021959-9) 79-2742 by Alvin Schwartz. New York, Harper & Row. Longer than some volumes for first readers, 63 p. (An I can read book) $6.95 ISBN this amusingly pictured text makes room for the 0-06-025237-5(lib.ed.$6.79 ISBN0-06- script of an Easter play. (Gr 2-3) 025238-3) 79-2811 "For youngest posers, a selection of riddles from folklore around the world, illustrated hu- Hutchins, Pat.The Tale of Thomas Mead. New morously in soft colors by Marc Simont. (Gr 1-3) York, Greenwillow Books. 31 p. (Greenwillow read-alone) $5.95 ISBN 0-688-80282-6 (lib. ed. $5.71 ISBN 0-688-84282-8) 76398 A slapstick cautionary tale told in easy-to-read STORIES FOR THE MIDDLE GROUP verse about Thomas Mead "who never learned to read" and the mishaps that befell him on that account. Graphic illustrations.in full, soft color. Beatty, Patricia.That's One OrneryOrphan. New (Gr 1-3) York, Morrow. 222 p. $7.95 ItSBN 0-688- 22227-7 (Jib. ed. $7.63 ISBN 0-681-32227-1) ' 80-10200 Low, Joseph.Mice Twice. NewYork, Atheneum. Thirteen-year-old Hallie, a Texas orphan in [32] p. (A Margaret K. McElderry book) $9.95 the 1870s, wrangles her way in and out of ISBN 0-689-50157-9 79-23274 trouble as she waits to be "picked" by a "respect- In a fablelike exchange of hospitality, de- able" family. (Gr 5-7) scribed in witty line-and-wash drawings anda rhythmic flow of language, clever Mouse out- wits Cat. A Caldecott Honor Book. (Gr 1-3) Blume, Judy.Superfudge.New York, Dutton. 166 p. $7.95 ISBN,J)-525-40522-4 80-10439 In an entertaining sequel toTales of a Fourth' Marshall, Edward.Troll Country. NewYork, Dial Grade Nothing ($6.95ISBN 0-525-40720-0), Press. 56 p. (Dial easy-to-read) $5.89 ISBN sixth-grade Peter describes the arrival of his 0-8037-6211-9 (paper $1.95 ISBN 0-8037- new sister Tootsie and her startling effect on his 6210-0) 79-19324 liule brother Fudge. (Gr 4-5) James Marshall's humorous three-color drawings show how clever Elsie Fay, like her mother earlier, deals with a mean and messy troll. (Gr Bond, Michael.Paddington Takes the Test. 1-3) Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. Boston., 4 library of Congress 5 'Houghton Mifflin. I25,p. $6.95 ISBN 80-16060 0-395-295I9-X 80-16972 Eddie doesn't like:the idea of girls playing base- Further blithe misadventures of the famous ball in his league, but rethinks his attitudes when bear from Darkest Peru include his taking a one of his pitches injures a girl. (Cr 4-6) driving test. (Cr 3-5)

Corbett, Scott. TheGreat McGoniggle Switches Bu Ila, Clyde R.My Friend the Monster.New Pitches.Illustrated by Bill Ogden. Boston, Lit- York, CrovvIl. 75 p.$7.95 ISBN 0-690- tle, Brown. 55 p. (An Atlantic Monthly Press 04031-8 (lib. ed. $7.89 ISBN 0-690-04032-6) book) $6.95 ISBN 0-316-15710-4 80-15589 79-7826 Canny Mac McGoniggle saves the day when he Eloquent line drawings by Michele Chessare calls a pitch in the championship game against enhance the story of a young prince who forms (;unther High. (Cr 3-5) a friendship with a monster. ((;r 3-5)

Coren, Alan. Arthur and the Great Detective. Burch, Robert.Ida Early Comes Over the Moun- Illustrateci, by John AstrOp. Boston, Little, tain.New York, Viking Press. 145 p. $8.95 Brown..71-0. $6.95 ISBN 0-316-15736-8 1SBN 0-670-39169-7 79-2)532 79-23511 Set during the Great Depression, this warm A briskly comic, extravagant narrative has and humorous story tells of the coming to the young Arthur William Foskett teaming astutely Suttons, whose lives she was to change, of Ida with Sherlock Holmes to solve mystery on ship- Early, champion tiddlywinks player and cook. board. ((;r 3-6) ((;r 5-7)

Davies, Andrew.Conrad'sWar. New York, Crown Byars, BetsyC. The Night Swimmers.Illustrated Publishers. 120 p. $7.95 ISBN 0,517-54007-X by Troy Howell. New York, Delacorte Press. 79-28289 131 p. $7.95 'ISBN 0-440-06261-6 (lib. ed. Conrad, obsessed with World War II, coolly $7.45 ISBN 0-440-06262-4) 79-53597 fashions for himself and his bumbling father roles A Newbery Medal winner's poignant story of in the air war over Germany. Winner of England's family relationships shows Retta trying to take Guardian Award. ((;r. 4-6) the place of her dead mother and raise her younger brothers while their father, a country singer, struggles for stardom. ((;r 5-7) Elmore, Patricia.Susannah and the Blue House Mys- tery.Illustrated by John C. %Winer. New York, Callen, Larry.THe MuskratWar. Boston, Little, Dutton. 164 p. $9.95 ISBN 0-525-40525-9 Brown. 132 p. (An Atlantic Monthly Press 79-20491 book) $8.95 ISBN 0-316-12498-2 80-36700 Mystery fiction of a popular type about Susan- Clear characterizations of farmers and swin- nah and her friends who attempt to piece togeth- dlers create with humor another realistic, timeless er elusive clues to the location of a treasure. (Gr picture of Four Corners, where young Pinch and 3-5) Charley try to earn money trapping muskrats. ((;r 5-7) Fleischman, Albert Sidney. McBroomand thr Great Race.Illustrated by Walter Lorraine. Boston. Chaikin, Miriam.Finders Weepers.Drawings by Little, Brown. 57 p. (An Atlantk Monthly Press Richard Egielski. New York, Harper & Row. book) $7.95 ISBN 0-316-28568-4 79-22609 120 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-06-021176-8 (lib. ed. $8.79 The tall-tale saga of a race for the ownership of ISBN 0-06-021177-6) 79-9608 McBroom's wonderful farmrun by him on his In this spontaneous sequel to last year's /Should bull chicken and by mean Heck Jones on his Worry, I Should Care ($7 .95ISBN 0-6-021174-1), jackalope (half jack rabbit, half antelope). (Cr 3-5) Molly finds a ring and wrestles fiercely with her conscience over the matter of returning it. (Cr 4-6) Fleischman, Paul. TheHalf-a-Mooninn. Illustra- tions by Kathy Jacobi. New York, Harper & Christopher, Matthew F. WildPitch.Boston, Lit- Row. 88 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-06-021917-3 (lib. ed. tle, Brown. 137 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-316-14019-8 $8.79 ISBN 0-06-021918-1) 79-2010 Children's Books 1980 6 Gothic elements of text and nine sombre cross- Hurwitz, Johanna. Once I Was a Plum Tree. hatched ink drawings create a strong mood of Illustrated by Ingrkd Fetz. New York, Morrow. skulduggery when an innkeeper kidnaps a mute 160 p. $7.50 ISBN 0-688-22223-4 (lib. ed. $7.20 boy. (Cr 5-8) ISBN 0-688-32223-9) 79-23518 The perceptive story of a confused child inan assimilated Jewish household who turns to Ger- man refugee neighbors for help in finding her Gardiner, John R. Stone Fox. New York, Crowell. heritage. (Gr 3-6) 85 p. $6.96 ISBN 0-690-03983-2 (lib. ed. $6.89 ISBN 0-690-03984-0) 79-7895 Based in part on a Rocky Mountain legend and evocatively illustrated by Marcia Sewall is thisac- Knudson, R. Rozanne. Rinehart Lifts. New York, count of a dog sled race in which young Willy Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 87 p. $8.95 ISBN stakes everything on winning the big purse. (Cr 0-374-36294-7 80-66825 4-6) Encouraged by his best friend, clumsy, goOd- natured Rinehart takes up weight liftidg and thus ovekomes the sense of failure in sports that has always haunted him. ((;r 4-6) Gates, Doris. A. Morgan for Melinda. New York, Vi- king Press. 189 p. $9.95 ISBN 0-670-48932-8 79-19786 An easy, reassuring narrative reveals how Me- Langton, Jane. The Fledgling. New York, Harper linda's friendship with an elderly writer helps her & Row. 182 p. (An Ursula Nordstrom book) overcome her fear of horses. (Cr 4-6) $7.95 ISBN 0-06-023678-7 (lib. ed. $7.89 ISBN 0-06-023679-5) 79-2008 A fourth volume about the Hall family in Con- cord centers on Georgie whose passionate desire Hildick, Edmund W. The Case of the Snowbound to fly leads her into friendship with a mysterious Spy. Illustrated by Lisl Weil. New York, Mac- Canadian goose. ((;r 4-6) millan. 132 p. (A Mc(;urk mystery) $7.95 ISBN 0-02-743860-0 80-12272 With codes to decipher and a lively mystery this story recounts exploits of the "McGurk Organiza- Lobel, Arnold. Fables. New York, Harper & Row. tion" of youthful detectives who are hired byan 40 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-06-023973-5 (lib. ed. $8.79 enigmatic retired spy. (Gr 4-6) ISBN 0-06-023974-3) 79-2004 Original, wryly humorous fables with equally amusing full-color illustrations oftheir animal subjects range from a crocodile in bed to a jour- Holland, fsabelle. Now h Not Too Late. New York, neying mouse at the seashore. Winner of the 1981 Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books. 159 p. $7.95 Caldecott Medal. (Gr 2-up) ISBN 0-688-41937-2 (lib. ed. $7.63 ISBN 0-688-51937-7) 79-22610 Spending the slimmer with her wise grand- mother on a Maine island, eleven-year-old Cathy Lowry, Lois. Autumn Street.Boston, Houghton learns much about herself and about relaionships Mifflin. 188 p. $6.95 ISBN 0-395-27812-0 with otherssituations graphically revealed and 80-376 sometimes poignant. (Cr 5-6) With her father away in World War II, Eliz- abeth goes with her mother and sister to her grandfather's house where she must face cruelties in the adult worlda deeply poignant narrative Hurmence, Belinda. Tough Tiffany. Garden City, related with perception. ((;r 5-8). N.Y., Doubleday. 166P. $7.95 ISBN 0-385- 15082-2 (lib. ed. $8.90 ISBN 0-385-15083-0) 79-6979 A vivid slice-of-life picture of Tiffany, with the Mauser, Pat. R. How I Found Myself atthe(Fair. beautifully plaited cornrows, who takes her first Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. New steps toward adulthood in rural North Carolina. York, Atheneum. 58 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-689- ((;r 5-7) 30780-2 80-12058 6 Library of Congress Nine-year-old Laura is glad to go to thelttate A light humor pervades the story of Henry's fair with her friend's large family instead of with pet lizard who has more than ordinary interestfor her .overprotective motheruntil they all scatter others, including a Welsh dragon named Aelf. (Cr and Laura is left alone. (Cr 2-4) 4-6)

Miles, Betty.Maudw and Me and the Dirty Book NewYork, Knopf; distributed by Random Shura, MaryF . Chester.Illustpted by Susan Swan. House. 144 p. $6.95 ISBN 0-394-84343-6 (lib. New York, Dodd, Mead. 92 p. $6.95 ISBN ed. $6.99 ISBN 0-394-94343-0) 79-19783 0-396-07800-1 79-6633 In a childlike and involving story, sixth-grade A sprightly recounting of how within a week a Maudie survives complaints and debate about the Texas community is turned inside out and united appropriateness of her reading to the first grade a in friendship by a new boy and his pet goat. (GI- book about the birth of puppies. ((;r 4-6) 4-5)

Naylor, Phyltis R.Eddie, Incorporated.New York, Atheneum. 101 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-689-30754-3 Slepian, Janice B.The Alfred Summer. !NewYork, 79-22589 Macmillan. 119 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-024782920-0 Twelve-year-old Eddie's attempt to go into busi- 79-24097 ness with 'friends reveals that incorporating is by A warm humorous story tells how t le unexpect- no means simple. ((r 4-6) ed happens in a coastal communiynear New York City when four loners, two o them handi- capped, unite to build a boat. ((;r 5-/7) Pelgrom,Els. The Winter When Time Was Frozen. Translationfrom the Dutch by Maryka and Raphael Rudnik. New York, Morrow. 253 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-688-22247-1 (lib. ed. $7.63 ISBN Van de Wetering, Janwillem.Hugh Pine,Boston, 0-688-32247-6) 80-21224 Houghton Mifflin. 82 p. $6.9f) ISBN 0-395- Described in this award-winning story are the 29459-2 80-13652 late World War II experiences of Noortje and her A porcupine genius, in a large red hat, enlists father when they were given sanctuary by a (oura- the aid of human friends tosaveihis fellows from geous Duich farmer and his family. (Cr 5-7) death on the highway; profuseli and beguilingly sketched by 1.ynn Munsinger. (Cr 3-5)

Roberts, Willot). The Girl with the Silver Eyes.New York, Atheneum. 181p. $8.95 ISBN 0-089- 30786-1 80- I 2391 Van Wo rkom, Dorothy. Pearlinthe Egg; a Tale of A sometimeshumorous,though still thought- the ThtkleenthCentury. Illustrated by JoeLasker. provoking story about ten-year-old Katie whose New Yrk, Crowell. 118 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-690- strange powers make her an outcast and lead her 04029-6 (lib. ed. $7.89 ISBN 0-690-04030-X) to search for others like herself. ((;r 5-7) 79-8040 A well-illustrated, lively view of thirteenth- century England when, onjoining a minstrel Rounds,' Glen.Blind Outlaw.New York, Holiday troupe, Pearl discovers how verymuch she loves House. 94 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-8234-0423-4 to sing. (Cr 5-7) 80-15848 With considerable poignancy this story relates how a mute bov tames a blind outlaw horse. Illustrated with many expressive ink sketches. (Grl Willace, Barbara B.Peppernunts in the Parlor. New 4-up) itrlt, Atheneum. 198 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-689- 30790-X 80-12326 How wealthy, orphaned Emily meets sinister Sargent, Sarah.Weird Henry Berg. NewYork, Mrs. Meechingand Mrs. Plurnly in a retirement Crown. 113 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-517-5413744 home makes a Victorian tale of' evil, mystery, and 140- I 3651 the final ttiumph of good. ((;r 4-6)

Children's Books 1980 FICTION FOR OLDER READERS training at creative arts camp isseen to offer her herfirstromance, unexpected responsibilities, and predictable camp escapades. (Gr 5-7) . Aiken, Joan. The Shadow Guests. New York, Delacorte Press.150 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-440- 07746-X (lib. ed. $7.45 ISBN 0-440-07747-8) Fox, Paula. A Place Apart. New York, Farrar, 80-11984 Straus, Giroux.183p.$9.95 ISBN 0-374- Relayed in fresh words and quick pace are the 35985-7 80-36717 adventures of Cosmo who did not expectto en- A sharply perceptive author unveilsa picture of counter the supernatural when he journeyedto the growth of friendship between Victoria and England to visit his cousin. (Gr 6-8) Hugh, who demas that his classmate lengthen tit 'her drama written or a class assignment in, order to make it the senior class playie situation fraught with the fragility of personalities.((;r Bond, Nancy. Country of Broken Stone. New York, 8-up) Atheneum. 271 p. (A Margaret K. McElderry book) $10.95 ISBN 0-689-50163-3 79-23271 A graphic tale centered on England's Roman Greenwald, Sheila. /t All Began with Jane Eyre;or, wall where Penelope's new stepmother workson the Secret Life of Franny Dillman. Boston, Little, an archaeological dig and Penelope sensesa Brown. 117 p. (An Atlantic Monthly Press brooding atmosphere presaging hostilitiesto book) $7.95 ISBN 0-316-32671-279-26901 come. (Gr 7-up) Thirteen-year-old Franny, compulsive reader and rereader of Jane Eyre,turns to contemporary teenage fiction and with hilarious results triesto Brooks, Jerome. Make Me a Hero. New York, relate its problems' to events "erupting"in her Dutton. 152 p..$8.95 ISBN 0-525-34475-6 own family. (Gr 5-7) 79-20269 A finely crafted novel probes deeply into, the mind of twelve-year-old Jake who, haunted bythe Hall, Lynn. The Leaving. New York, Scribner.116 death oft friend and resentful of his family'scon- p. $8.95 ISBN 0-684-16716-6 80-18636 cern for his soldier brothers, strives to become a Intricacies of family relationshipsare handled hero himself. ((;r 6-8) with perception in this novel _abouta young girl whose move from the farm to the citysets into motion Other changes which affect her andher ,Calvert, Patricia. The Snowbird. New York, parents. (Gr 7-9) Scribner. 146 p. $8.95 ISBN Q-684-16719-0 80-19139 Orphaned Willie and heryounger brother TJ Hanwn, June A. Wirder of the Owl. New York, discover, on their first night .withan uncle and Macmillan, )26 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-02-742530-4 aunt in the Dakota territory, a good omen in the 80-15966 birth of a white filly, "The Snowbird." ((;r 5-7) In a sequel to Summer of a Stalhon ($7.95 ISBN 0-02-742620-3), Janey comes to realize themean- Ing of friendship, prejudice, andindependence as Clifford, Eth. The Killer Swan. Boston, Houghton she struggles to keep and traina colt. ((;r 6-up) Mifflin. 114 p. $6.95. ISBN 0-395-29742-7 80-17773 In this vivid story a crazed cob's battle witha Hassler, Jon. Jemmy. New York, Atheneum. 175 cygnet helps fourteen-year-old Lex face emotional p. (A Margaret K. McElderry book) $7.95 ISBN problems caused by his father's suicide. (Gr 7-up) 0-689-50130-7 79-23091 Seventeen-year-old Jemmy, her Chippewa mother dead and her white fatheran alcoholic, Danziger, Paula. There's a Batin Bunk Five. New struggles against poverty to find her i tity as an York, Delacorte Press. 150p. $7.95 ISBN Indian, a woman, and an artist. (Gr 7-9 0-440-08605-1(lib.ed.$7.45 ISBN 0-440- 08606-X) 80-0581 In a sequel to The Cat Ate My Grisuit ($6.95 Haugaard, Erik C. Chase Me, Catch Nobody! Boston, ISBN 0-440-01612-6; lib. ed. $6.46 ISBN Houghton Mifflin. 209 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-395- 0-440-01696-7), Marcy's summer as a counselor in 29208-5 80-371 8 ,Library of Congress 9- In a taut, humorous tale, a fourteen-year-old stated novel, by a Newbery Medal winner. (Gr Danish schoolboy tangles with Nazis, frees a half 7-9) Jewish girl from their clutches, abd escapes to Denmark. ((;r 6-8) Oneal, Zibby. The Lanuage of Goldfish. New York, VikingPress.179p.$8.95 ISBN 0-670- Jones, Toeckey.Go Well, Stay Well.New York, 41785-8 79-19167 Harper .& Row. 208 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-06-- Clalrity of mood and.verisimilar expression of 023061-4 (lib. ed. $8.79 ISBN 0-06 adolescent views enhance this story of the talented 023062-2) 79-3603 young artist Carrie's struggles to communicate A poignant narrative reveals difficulties en- with family and classmates. ((;r 6-8) countered in Johannesburg by a white girl and her Zulu friend who defy apartheid. (Gr 6-8) Paterson, Kat)ierine.Jacob Have I Loved.New York, Crowell. 216 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-690- Keele, Luqman (sic],andDaniel Pinkwater.Java 04078-4 (lib. ed. $8.79 ISBN 0-690-,04079-2) Jack.New York, Crowell. 152 p. $7.95 ISBN 80- 668 0-690-03995-6' (lib. ed. $7.89 ISBN 0-690- The 1981 Ney/bery Medal-winning book pre- 03996-4) 79-7892 sents an intuitive story dealing with a vetting girl's En route to Indonesia-to search tor his missing struggle to emerge from the shadow of a favored anthropologist parents, Jack enters upon a series twin sister. (Gr 7-9) of adventures which take him outside the known universe. (Cr 6-8) Petlek, Lucia.Trap for Perseus.Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Scarsdale, N. Y., L'Engle, Madeleine.A Ring of Endless Light.New Bradbury Press. 168 p. $9.95 ISBN 0-87888-- York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 324 p. $9.95 160-3 79-24862 ISBN 0-374-36299-8 79-27679 A spare narrative with philosophical overtones A Newbery honor book sequel to Meet .the deals with the fate Of the commander of the Perse- Auslins (Vanguard Press. $6.9 5 ISBN us after he and ,his crew are trapped aboard the 0-81-49-0352-5) finds Vicky at sixteen con- Argo, a spaceship'that had been missing for 200 fronting questions of love and death. ((;r 7-9) years. (Gr 8-up) -

Lingard, Joan.The File on Fraulein Berg .New York, Elsevier/Nelson Books. 160 p. $7.95 Rees,David. The Exeter Blitz. NewYork, Else- ISBN 0-525-66684-2 80-10447 vier/Nelson Wooks. 12 8 p. $6.95 ISBN In 1944 three imaginative schoolgirls in North- 0-525-66683-4 80-13670 ern Ireland keep tOs on the activities oftheir The 1979 Carnegie Medal-winning story "details German teacher whom they suspect is a Nazi spy. circumstances of heroism in a Coastal cathedral ((sr 7-9) town, centering on fourteen-year-old Colin and his search for his family. (Gr 6-8)

Namioka, Lensey.Valley of the Broken Cherry Trees. New York, Delacorte Press. 218 p. $8.95 ISBN Rodowsky, Colby' F.A Summer's Worth of Shame; a 0-440-09325 -2 79-53605 Novel.New York, Watts. 150 p. $7.90 ISBN A humorous-, fast-pared, and suspenseful tale 0-53 I -04 110-7 79-23278 of two unemployed Samurai who try to solve a A realistic story, showing how Thad and his mystery of mutilated cherry trees. (Gr 6-7) family attempt to carry on normal lives after his father has been convicted of embezzlement, with Thad giving up his ual summer at the beach to O'Dell, Scott. Sara Bishop. Boston, Houghton work in an amusemerpark under an assumed Mifflin. 184 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-395-29185-2 name. (Gr 6-8) 79-28394 Alone' after the deaths Of her father and brother during the revolutionary mar, Sarah fleesfrOm Sachs, Marilyn.Class Pictures.New York, Dutton. the British, who seek to arrest herandmakes a 158 p. $9.95 ISBN 0-525-27985-7 80-390 new life far herself in the wilderness. An under- A faithful recalling of incidents in Pat's and Lol-

Childretes Books 1980 9 ly's friendship, from kindergarten bitesto high Poet and artist express an almost symbiotic wit school antinuclear demonstrations. (Cr 6-up) and wryness in this posthumous collection of the punster-poet's linguistic fun. (Cr 4-up) Wells, Rosemary. When No One Was Looking. New York, Dial Press. 218 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-8037- Pomerantz, Charlotte. The Tamarando Puppy an.d 9855-5 80-12964 Other Poems. New York, Greenwillow Books. 31 A taut, provocative novel shows fourteen-year- p, $7.95 ISBN 0-688-80251-6 (lib. ed. $7.63 old Kathy's tennis career endangered bya series ISBN 0-688-84251-8) 79-16584 of tragic events. (Cr 7-9) The blending of Spanish and English in thirteen poems, brightly pictured by Byron Barton, underscores the pleasurable use of word play and POETRY, RHYMES, AND SONGS rhythm. (PreS-Gr 3)

Glazer, Tom. Do Your Ears Hang Low? Fifty More Prelutsky, Jack. The Headless Horikman Rides To- Musical Fingerplays. Illustrated by Mila Lazar- night; More Poems To Trouble Your Sleep. New evich. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday. 112p. York, Greenwillow Books. 38 p. $7.95 ISBN 48.95 JSBN 0-385-12602-6 (lib. ed. $9.90 0-688-80273-7 (lib. ed. $7.63 ISBN 0-688- ISBN 0-385-12003-4) 78-20072 84273-9) 80 -10372 This cheerfully illustrated collection of favorite Twelve sonorous poems tb chill the heart and songs. for young children in.c4udes piano delight the ear have Arnold Lobel's finelycross- arrangments and indications of guitar chords. hatched, sombre pen-and-ink drawingsto cast (PreS-up) properly eerie shadows on a mtimmy, zombie, banshee, and other nightmarishcreatures. ((;r 2-up) Kuskin, Karla. Dogs and Dragons. Trees and'Dreams; a Collection of Poems. New York, Harper & Row. 96 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-06-023543-8 79-2814 FOLKLORE Notes on the writing of poetry together with pleasing drawings enhance the appeal of fifty-six poems gathered here from the 'author's earlier The Adventures of Nanabush: Ofthway Indian Stories. works. (Gr. 3-6) Told by Sam Snake let al.] Compiled by Emer- son Coatsworth and David Coatsworth. Illus- trated by Francis Kagige. New York, Athene- Moore, Clement C.. The Night Before Christmas. um. 85 p. (A Maegaret K. McE Merry book) New York, Holiday House. [321 p. $9.95 ISBN $10.95 ISBN 0-689-50162-5 79-89499 0-8234-0414-5 (paper $4.95 ISBN 0-8234- Rich ,paintings by an Ojibway artist accompany 0417-X) 80-11758 thesesixteeen how and why stories, the first of The traditional poem, enlivened by Tomie de which tells of the creation of the world by the Paola's rich watrrcolor paintings. (PreS-Gr 4) mighty magician Nanabush. ((;r 4-up)

Mother Goose. Grav Goose and Gander & Other Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum. Compiled and Mother Goose Rhymes. Collected and illustrated illustrated by Ashley Bryan. New York, Athene- by Anne Rockwell. New York, Crowell. 64p. WM 68 p. $10.95,1SBN 0-689-30769-1 $7.95 ISBN 0-690-04048-2 (lib ed. $8.79 80-1'2045 ISBN 0-690-04049-0) 79-6839 Five tales from Nigeria deal with hows and Fresh illustrations in soft, flat colors illustrate whys of the animal worldfor example, -Why over fifty traditnmal rhymes, including tongue Frog and Snake Never Play Together." (K-( ;r 3) twisters. (K-up)

Grirnm, Jakob II. K. The Fisherman and His Wale;a Nash, Ogden. CUitard and Company. Selected and Tale from the Brothers Grimm. Tr.anslated by illustrated by Quentin Blake. Boston, Little, Randall Jarrell. New York, Farrar, Straus, Brown. 128 p. 57.95 ISBN 0-316-59834-8 Giroux. 1321p. $10.95 ISBN 0-374-32340-2 79-25742 79-3248 10 Ii Library of Congress Luxuriant in dimension and brilliance of color 27045-0 79-17673 reproduction are Margb- Zemach's entertaining As in her earlier tellable compendia repre- storytelling paintings which vivify this folk tale sentingvenres of f6lklore, the compiler bring's to- treated earlier in smaller scope by this same artist. gether here from many lands twenty-three attrac- (K-Gr 3) tively illustrated tales abput ghostlOwings. .(Gr 4-up)

Grimm, Jakob L. K., and Wilhelm K. Grimm. tion.wl andGretel. Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwer- Plume,Ike. The Bremen-TownMUSsetani. Retold. gtr. Translation from_the German by Elizabeth Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday. 1321 p. $8.95 D. Crawford. New rork, Morrow. 1251 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-385-15161-6 79-6622 ISBN 0-688-22198-X ($7.63 ISBN 0-688- -The familiar tale apout a donkey, dog, cat, and .321W-4) 79-989 rooster is interpreted by the retdler in -animated, 'The much loved folk tale is given a fresh appeal softly colored hthographs.(K-(;r 2) in warmly childlike full-page paintings. ((;rI -4)

Suuliff, Rosemary.The Light Beyond the Forestthe Gustafson, Anita.Monster Rolling Skull and Other quest for the Hoh Grad. New York, Dutton. f43 Native American Tales.Retold. New York, p. $8.95 ISBN (=.525-$3665-6 79-23396 Crowell. 90 p. $7.95 ISBN 0-690-040 [9-9 (lib. Recreated with the skill -shown iriNutclifrs writ- ed. $7.89 ISBN 0-690-04020-2) 79-7980 ing of historic-al fiction 14 her- retelling of this King Nine traditional tales-from the North American Arthur legend. Pleasingy decorated by Shirley Indians, five of them about the trickster Coyote, Felts. ((;r 4-7) are based on material gathered firsthand and retold in lively prose with John Stadler's.exprersive line-and-wash illustrations in grays and black. (Gr HISTORY, PEOPLE, AND PLACES .

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Anno, Mitsumasa.Anna's Medieval World.Adapted Hodges, Margaret.The hule Humpbacked Ilorw; a from the translation by Ursula Synge. New RussianTale.Retold. Md.!, pictures by Chris York, Philornel Books. 1521 p. $9.95`ISBN Conover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux.. 0-399-20742 -2 ($9.99 ISBN 0-399-61153-3) 1311 p. $9.95 ISBN 0 -374 -34603-8 80-19113 _79-28367 Handsomely produced with full pages of hdr- In finely detailed paintings and a lyrical text the monicnis fuH-color paintings arid patterned bor- author-arfint captures the excitement of life M the ders, this m an excellent retelling of the classic sto- .Middle. Ages as new scientific theories challenged ry about a magical horse that helps a young the old. (( ; r 4 --up) peasant. Ivan the Fool, marry his beloved and tre wine Tsar of Russia. (Gr 3-up) Freedman, Russell.Inunigrant Keds. New York, Dutton. 72 p. $9.95 ISBN 0 -525 -3253H-7 Jagendorf, Mork/ A.,and Virginia Weng.he 79-20060 Magic Boat and Other Chinese Folk Stories. Late nindeenthAernury and ilarly twentieth- Illustrated by Wan-go Weng. New N'ork, Van- century photographs and a succinct text capture guardPress.'236p.$8.95ISBN. 0-8149-- with telling details the experiences bf immigrant 08'23 -3 79-67814 children and their parents. (( ; r 4- op) Although a consistent spare style of folklore 1 telling is lacking, this handsomely produced col- lectionof tales hasvaluefor its representation of Jameson, Cynthia.The Secret ol the Row! Mourwis; the cultural variety of peoples within China (an Henry Lavard and, the First Cities ofAssyria. appendix (1 iscWiRe4 the groups) and the inclusion Illustrated by Pat Cummings. New York, Cow- of ame tales not available in .ot her in-print collet-. ard, McCann & Geogheganf,62 p. $5.99 ISBN 0 tions. (( ;r 5-up) 0-698-30710-0 78-26903 A fara-paced, somewhat fktionalized text,dully illustrated with boldly crosshatched ink drawings, Manning-Sanders, Ruth.A Rook ol Spooks and relles the adventures of the archaeologist who Spectres. Illustratedby Robin Jac-ques. New succeeded in urwovering ancient Ninevah. York,Dutton. 127p.$8.95 ISBN 0-525- 5-7) 11 Children's Books 1980 1 2 vio Lauri,* Jaion, and Ettagale Laure. SouthAfrica; $7.95.1SBN 0-399-20723-6(paper $3.95 do Coming of Age under Apartheid. New York, ISBN 0-399-2073471) 80-11377 Farrar; Straus, Giroux. 180p. $12.95,. ISBN omes's witty drawings complement a 0-374-37146-6 79-23109 strartfOrward biography o,frtMxplorer who, Interviews with eight South Africanyoung peo- seeking gold, found a new w rld he did notwant. ple of various ethnic backgrounds revealthe af- (Gr. 3-5) fect of apartheid on them. Photographs byJason Laure are of superior quality and interest. (Gr 7-9) Siegel, Beatrice. An Eyeon the World; Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer. New York, F. Warne. 124 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-7232-6173-3 Lin;lop, Edmund. Cuba. NewYork, Watts. 64 p. 79-2432 (A First book) $6.90 ISBN 0-531-04101-8 A view of a spirited, interpretative.artist widely 79-24010 recognized for her documentation of society, Clearly organized and well illustrated withcolor including the 'social upheavals of the thirties and photographs, this slender volumecovers in grill World .War II. (Gr 6-9) the history and present government,sugar and tobaccoscononiy, and ways of lifeon the large island which.beCame communist after Castro'sac- cession to power in 1959. (Gr 6up)

4. .ARTS AND HOBBIES Meltzer, Milton. All Times; All Peoples;a World His- tory of Slavery. Illustrated by Leonard Everett Cleaver, Elizabeth. Petrouchka. Adapted from Igor Fisher. New York, Harper & Row. 65p. $8,95 Stravinsky and Alexandre Benois. New York, ISBN 0-06-024186-1 (lib. ed. $8.79 ISBN Atheneum:[32]p.$12.95ISBN 0-689 0-06-024187X4 79-2810 30704-7 79-14436 Brginning with ancient times and covering all Richly hued pictures set off this brief retelling the continents, the author shows through descrip- olVthe popular Russian ballet in whi0,..,apuppet tion and example that slavery still exists today in tries to win the love of a ballerina. (Gr 4up) underdeveloped prs of the world. (Gr 6up) 4 Cumming, Robert. Just Look... a Book aboul Meltzer, Milton. The Chinese-Americans. New York', Plantings. New York, Scribner. 61p. $9.95 Crowell. 181 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-690-04038-5 ISBN 0-684-16339X 79-9315 (lib. gd. $8.79 ISBN 0-690-04039L-3) 79-3419 In an examination of a wide variety of paint- A description of the contributions of the Chi- ings, well reproduced in color, the reader-viewer nese to the development of the United States in- becomes involved in. questions and experiments cludes their struggles afainst odds, often unfair, having to do with light, color, mood, andperspec- , for economic and social equality. (Gr 7-9) tive. (Cale 1979; Gr 3up)

a \ Roberson, John R. China from Manchu to Mao Diamond, Donna. Swan Lake. Introduction by (1699-1976). New York, Atheneum. 191 p. Clive Barnes. New York, Holiday House. [32]p. $10.95 ISBN 0-689-30758-6 79-22269 $8.95 ISBN 0-8234-0356-4 79-11179 Three centuries of Chinese cultural and politi- A sucrcinct adaptation of the classic ballet story, cal history are attractively illustrated with prints froM the origioal book and the 1895 version,has and photographs in black and white. (Gr 8up) been given large chiaroscuro paintings in soft greys. (Gr 1up)

Dickrneyer, Lowell A. Basketball Is for Me. Photo- graphs by Alan Oddie. Minneapolis, Lerner BIOGRAPHY Publications. 46 p. (The Sports forme books) $5.95 ISBN 0-8225-1089-8 79-16R54 Jenny and her' fourth-grade classmates learnIco .kan. Where Do You,Think You're Going, dribble, pass, shoot, and reboundas they prepare Christopherolumbus? New York, Putnam. 80 p. for their first basketballgame. (Gr 4-5) 12. 1 3 Library of Congress La' Dolan, Edward F. The Complete Beginner'S Guide to aPproach to making new models of bicycles out of Gymnastks. With photographs' by James Stew- oki OneN.WY5 -8). art, Garden City, N.Y.., Doubleday. 209 p. (the (;omplete beginner's guide series) $8.95 ISBN 0-05=13434 (lik. ed. $9.90 ISBN 0-385- Macaulay, David. Unbuilding. Boston,' Houghton. 78A0286 Mifflin. 78 1). $9.95 ISBN 0=395-29457-6 13435-5) A0-15491 An exjnoinion, with step-by-step photographs., of basic exercises. equilnuent, eight competitive In a visual spoof the writer-artist dismantles the events, ami num- than one hundred stunts. (( r Empire State Building following its purchase by 6-8) an Arab sheik. (( r 7--up)

Gardner, Beau, Tke Turn About, Think Almut, Look Pollock, Robert, 'Soccer lot lumors. New York, Almut Book, New York, Imihrop, Lee & Shepard Scribner, 187 p, $9,95 ISBN 0-684-16487-6 79 -29704 Books. 1141 col.plates. $6.95 ISBN 0-688-- 41969-0 ($6.67 ISBN 0-688-51969-5) With many instructive photographs, Noll(' anti 80-12885 advanced skills are dispoised and matters of Pages painted with shapes in bright flat colors equipment, injurieS, diet, as well as rules ink the are to.be viewed from each side,for the identifica- game, presented. (Gr 5-8) tion of a different object each way. (( r 4-up) Price., Christine. Made in the South Pacific Arti a/ I lertig, Alison C., and Jane I.. Malid. Boy! Ba- the Sea People, New York, Dutton. 134 p. 311.9 bies! Photographs by Katrina Thomas. Boston, ISBN 0-525-34997-0 78 -12807 Like the artist's earlier treatments of the arts of Little,Brown.106p.$9.95 ISBN 0-316- 35896 -7 (paper $5.95 IspN 0,-316-35897-5) Africa, this handsomely produced volume has am- 80-16575 j)le documentation in a map, reproductions of Expressive photogiaphs and candid comments many forms of art, andphotographs of peiple detail with hunuir the reactions of young boys in and their way of life. (Gr,ti-cipr their class on child care. ((r' 4 -6) Rol) tm, Nancy. pante, To Play in the Pool, New- jaspersolut, William. The Ballpark. Boston, Little, ork, Lothrop,' Lee. St' Shepard Books. 63 p. trown. 120 p. $8.95 ISBN (I -316-45812-0 (pa. 7.95 ISBN 0-688 -41926 -7 (lib. ed. $7,63 $4,95 ISBN 0 -1)6 -15811-2) 79-228.6 ISBN 0-688 -51926 --I) 79 -24105 hotographic essay-son Fenway Park, home of . Instructions for games and rat'es (tested for. safety) and water shows. fOr group or individual th onto Red Sox, focuses, with evocauve hun iterestpictures, on people behind the divers and swimmers, Many liiely plustograplis illustrate their wide range. (Gr 5--up) scenes 1 what they do on the day of a game. (6r Weiss, Elkn. Thing.% to Make and Do lot' Chrouna.s. .Kaufmann, John, Hy It! Making and Hying Your New York, Watts. 48 p. (A Things to make and own Kites, Boomerangs, Helicopters, Hang Gliders, do book) $6.90 ISBN 0-531-02293- 5 and Hand.launched Gliders. Carden City, N.Y., 79-23799 A gaily illustrated compendiumof suggestions Doubleday. 80 p. $8.95 ISBN 0-385-14292-7 and (lib. oil. $9,90 ISBN 0-385-)4293-5) for the making of cardS, decorations, gifts, 79-60292 ft sods., (( ;r 3-up) Simply written instructions. with diagrams and photographs, for creating and using a wide range of aviatorial craft. (( ; r 6-8) NATURE ANP SCIENCE 6

Lindblinn, Steven. The Fantastic Bicycles Book. Bos- Branley, Franklyn M. Feast or Familia; the Energy ton, HoughtonMIfflin, 100 p. $8.95 ISBN Future,Illustrated by Henry Roth and with 0-395-28481-3 (paper $9.95 ISBN 0-395= photographs. New York; Crowell. 87 p. $7.95 28482 -I) 79-15281 IBN 0-690-04040-7 (lib. ed. $7.89 ISBN For dreamers and doers, a practical illustrated 0.-190-04041 -5) 79 -7817 13 Children's Books 1980 1 4 A comparing of. Anwrican and Swedishuses of $6.95 ISBN. 0-688-22228-5 (lib. ed. $6.67 energy leads into discussion of reducticm .here ISBN 0-688-32228--X) NO.-10705 through such. means 35 more efficient insulating Striking close-up photographs in color and and district heating and transplirtaiion. (Gr black-and-white with a direct text describethe anaunny cil a frog. (( ; rI -.3)

Burt, Olive W. Revened! Anorrres'c Emiangered Wildli e on the Comeback Trot/. New York, Corbett, Scott Home CompooterA;a Simple and ht. Messner. 1214. $7.79 !Sit N.0-67 I -329144-7 lormathw (;uule. Boston, Little, Brown.HS p. 140-10638 (An Atlantic Monthly Press book) $7.95 ISBN A description, amplified by line-line sketches -0 316. 1565N -2 (impel$4.95 ISBN 0 316 and photographs. of ecological programs de- 15712 .-0) SO 10636 signed to save from .extinctioni wide range of Well ilbistrated with .examples, tins isan in- crealinrs, from turtles to grizily hears. (14 5-up) formal, rather than technical, introductionto the language of programs (software) and the physical components (hardware) of the computer. ((.r 7 -up) Carrick, Carol. The Crocodile% Stoll Watt. Pictiirdlibv

Donald Carrick, New York, Houghton Mi1- 11(mk5. 1321 p. $8.95 ISBN 0 395 29102 X 79 23519 Galhint, Roy A. Memory; llow II Walk and Howto large douhle-spread paintings in earthtones Improve 11, New York, him Winds Press. IONp, show a .mothei crocodile defending hervoting $8.95 158 N 0 590 07613 2 7(1 6342 agamst dinosaurs. (K-61- A scientific discussion ot theproves% ot remem- bering suggests ways 01 impiovingmemory, and «mulleins on computer w('nn)! y. ((.t 7 .up) 'Cherry, Mik.e. Steel Beam% and lion Men. New Yolk, Foul Winds Pi ess. 96 p, $9.95 ISBN 0 590 07591 N NO 06246 Hunt, Patricia. Kooks, New N.01 It, Dodd, Mead. A teadier who turned to nonworking describes 44 p. (A Skylight lor(1k) $4.95 ISBN 0 396- rewards. and the vonquest of tear which 07N49 -4 NO 13717 air inhorin in the job of et enthg frames of skv- Au«nnpanying a discussion of «msetvation ef- uo rapers nd Inge induso ial plants, (Gr 5t4) forts, exceptional photographs show the koala brat and othri mai supials in then Australianna- ture pi rso cr. (( ; r 4 -6) 1:obi), Vicki, and Kathy43thng.Bet Von Science lonpamlnlatet to Fool Foto. Illustrated .hy Martha Weston. New York, I.othrop, Ie Se la«)buom, Morris and David R. hail/. Wonders Shepard Books. 128 p. $6.95 IS8N9-1--6t4t4 al Snail% & Slugs. New Yolk, Dodd, Meat!. 96p, 41905 4 (lib. rd. $6.67 ISBN O. 614t4 -519(15 .9) duns. (Dodd, Mead Wonders. hooks) $5.95 ISBN 79 9254 0 306 07810 9 79 6646 Moir than sixty engaging hulks air posed, with A useful i (Arlen«. Wolk desurilnng the chalar- t kat explanation% and illustrations, to test a varie- 4,1 istirs, 11.1611.11s,Inetiatmv behat Mi, and de- ty of Scientific!infirmly% such as gravitv, Ione, fenses of a varietv of suails-and slugs and their and yummy. ((i3 6) use% by 111111.

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14 Library of Congreas 15 -399 -20730 -9 79-26522 Riedman, Sarah K. Odd Habitats 01 Land Animas. Following a summary of biological facts, a series New York, McKay. 54 p. $6.95 ISBN 0 -679-- of striking full-page color photographs by Ceorge 20779- I 79 34530 Bernai (I show rabbits in daily ctivities inside and From animal homeviu clves, hams, mid belfries ?inside Of their burrow. (( r 3 -up) to the camouflage feat oldie trapdoor spider.this study. well illustrated with diagrams 411(1 photographs. ranges widely, ((ir 6 --M)

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Paul, Aiken, lbe Ant% Met Ctudthook. Illustrated by John Del olio.( arden ( :ity, N.Y., 1)4)111)W:iv. 179 p. $7.95 ISBN 0 -3M5 13659 5 (lib, rd. Silverstein, Alvin, and 'irginia Silvei stein The Ge 104,0() ISBN 0 3M5 13(i60 9) 77 I6MMM netto Explomon. New Yoik, 1:crittWinds .Ptess. A win inonallv sound, «mononsensical ap- 15-1 p. 104.95 151iN 0 590 07517 979 22651 prom Ii to dionig, with willies and menus that the A detailed «iveiage on(1 without philo- entny family (an entov. ((I 5 M) sophi(ol «msuloations) of elementary genetic's, genetic disease, and le(ent tel !maples and fiittite possibilities in gene :dictation. (Ca 7 up) refl.Lilatoti)ug the V egetartan Way Gomi Food ham the Forth. New Yoi kforiow. 93 p. $7,95 ISBN 0 6MM 222 IMX ($7.63 ISBN Simon, I hilda. The Hate, i, Vpred an the Animal 0 6MM 322IMI) MO- IM-116 World. New Ymk, Lothiop, I.er & Shepard N,taits photogiaplis. yes foi vegetation eat- Books. 40 p. $7.95 ISBN 0 6MM 11949 6 (lib. ing, and a Inhhogiaph% «mantic to present Ill in- ed. $7.63 ISBN 0 6MM 519-19 0 MO 264 tonational sies-S71)1 segetanainsm. ((a 7 up) Animal speed and the ( holm to rib( s of fourteen of the fastest ( !canoes on land, sea, and in the air ate disoissed UI ter iris of Met 11.1111( N with whn illtistt alums heightening the impiessions of 131.1. lank Food, Fast Food, Ileolth Food,' Whul owess. (GI.1 up) .4metuato Eat and Why. New York, Ifoughum MillIm/Clanon Books. IM2 p. $9,95 ISBN 0 395 2910M 9 MO I592M Asill sr%oltwentieth-1(41011v eating Iuibits Srivastava, Jane J. Npacei, Slugtes, and Sam win( Iilo) sks health Luis and fancies. provides Illustrated by Loretta Lustig. New York, Iv( yes, a mon( «nivel sion table, and a list of CroWell. 46 p $7.95 ISBN 0 690 03961 I(lib. ((annum food additives, (Ca 6 M) ed. $7.89 ISBN 0 4190 -03962 Xi' 78 .22516 An explanation of the con( ept ()I volume in simple terms and illustrations. ((.t 2 4)

I'tii !Amen«. I'. Ewe% at Stake; the .ticuatee ond Po/au% al Envuonmental Health. New York. NEI( millan. 151 p. (t ieme fol survival ser,ies) Stein, Sat a B. The Sitence Book. New lila k, Work- $M,95 ISBN 0 02 775,110. 3 MI) E1272 man, 2M5 p. $10.95 ISBN I) MWIMI) 121 X (pa- An attempt answei questions abou environ- pet. $5.95 ISBN 0 M9481) 120I) 79 647M6 mental ond OIl upat lona! halards ng huniati For children to enjoy fully illustrated cOM- health nu hides ussion of t he -wo'k of gencies 1)01(1111M ()I fascinating facts, from goaninm fac- and asso(iations woo.« the quality ()I the envi- tories to baby behavim to wising a rat with high ronment. (GI 7 111)1 IQ to genes and packages of light. 1( 4 4 uP)

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